Itabari Njeri is an American journalist, novelist, and memoirist.
Life
Njeri was raised in Brooklyn and Harlem. She graduated from Boston University, and Columbia University with an M.S. In 1978, she joined the Miami Herald, and then The Los Angeles Times. In 1995, she was writer in residence at Washington University in St. Louis. She studied at Harvard University.[1]
Her work appeared in Harper's.[2]
Awards
- 1990 American Book Award
Works
- Every good-bye ain't gone: family portraits and personal escapades. Vintage Books. 1991. ISBN 978-0-679-73242-6.
- The last plantation: color, conflict, and identity : reflections of a new world Black. Houghton Mifflin. 1997. ISBN 978-0-395-77191-4.
- Shadowed Feats: Untold Story. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2006. ISBN 978-0-374-26185-6.
- The Secret Life of Fred Astaire
Anthologies
- Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, ed. (2004). "The Last Plantation". 'Mixed race' studies: a reader. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-32163-1.
References
- ^ Victoria Boynton, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography: K-Z. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-32739-1.
- ^ "Njeri, Itabari (Harper's Magazine)". Archived from the original on 2011-03-06.
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